Something interesting about the battles in Darthmod

[Axe-Battler]

First I want to say I used to use this mod before mtw2 was released, but recently my pc lost ram so I can only play rtw not mtw2 for the time, so I installed darthmod after some trouble with my downloading.

What I notice about the battles, particulary when using greek armies with phalangites, is that it seems more strategic, and I'll explain with the following images...
The image right here shows two armies of let's say pikes and cavalry for each, the black army on one side, and blue on the other, where you see the squares, let's pretend those are pikemen, and where you see the circular images those will be cavalry, and where you see the arrows pointing from a colored unit, that will be where the unit is moving to...
http://img213.imageshack.us/my.php?image=battlesdu0.png

Now in this next image, the units have made it to their destination, and where you see the brown line connecting the black and blue units that means they are engaging in melee.
http://img83.imageshack.us/my.php?image=battles2vk8.png

So my point is that I've noticed battles behave like this, where you can take 1 or very few units and command them to one spot while the enemy does the same, instead of vanilla rtw or other mods where the units all just charge at once... hence Darthmod has more strategy.
(sorry if my images are confusing I'm not used to drawing out that kinda stuff.)

[Persian Horseman]

darth mod does indeed have better battles.
thats y i have been hooked on it for so long.
sure, i tried a few other mods, but all they did was give the units a new skin, change the time period maybe. even a new map.

it all grows old after a while as the AI makes the exact same stupid mistakes again and again that just makes you want to uninstall the game.

Darth Mod doesnt mean perfect AI. if we had perfect AI, we would prob end up like in matrix, but darth mod is the best one i have experienced.

[kingjoe]

i completely agree. i recently switched from mtw2 back to rtw because ive realized i like the rtw time period much more. i was playing vanilla patched to 1.5 with the brutii and it was so easy. i pretty much had the campaign conquered before the reforms even happened. i had been using darthmod with mtw2 and enjoyed it so i figured i would enjoy darthmod for rtw and i was right. battles are much more strategic and hard. im carthage and im having a hell of a time fighting the romans, egyptians and spain....very fun and challenging

[Persian Horseman]

u know, as romans, i had never even seen the reforms till i got Darthmod.
thats because everytime i finished the game by about 230bc if not earlier.
even on VH/H.
and i had tried with every single roman faction.

i was wondering what the so called "reforms" were and kept thinking, how come i cant get half the units in the roster for romans. lol

only in darth mod i actually took long enough to finish the game.
but even that, i have never played a game past 210BC
except one as the carthaginians, that i conquered heaps of cities, and put everything on AI control and kept pressing END turn.
even that, after like 5-6 hours of continously ending turns, i only got to about 50BC and i gave up.

i still have the save, told myself, ill go back one day and finish it, lol.

[Axe-Battler]

you made it to 50 bc????

In both mtw2 and rtw I never made it past the 50-th turn!!! lol

[Persian Horseman]

thats what i was saying. i never went to like 220bc. and thats when i played real slow.

that 50 BC was when i just continously ended the turns and watched how my empire was being mis managed by the stupid AI.